{"id":40093,"date":"2018-12-20T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/eaglecrest-opens-following-morning-snowfall\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:20:49","slug":"eaglecrest-opens-following-morning-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/eaglecrest-opens-following-morning-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Eaglecrest opens following morning snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eaglecrest Ski Area staff and their 14 snow guns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/eaglecrest-ski-area-starts-blowing-snow-with-a-record-new-amount-of-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">got things rolling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, Mother Nature came through with its end of the bargain, bringing 7 inches of new snow to the Douglas ski area, green lighting daily operation now through Monday, Jan. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the holiday break (excluding Christmas day), Hooter and Porcupine chairlifts will be open from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. with the Eaglecrest Grill opening at 8:30 a.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/skieaglecrest.com\/conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eaglecrest reported Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist Aaron Jacobs of the Juneau Forecast Office said snow flurries started around 6 a.m. in most areas of town and concluded around 8 a.m. As of 10 a.m., the forecast office in the Mendenhall Valley and Mount Roberts Tramway reported 4 inches of snow, by which time the showers moved on to the Haines and Skagway areas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;ll be some more (snow) showers that will be moving through, but they&rsquo;re going to be decreasing through the day,&rdquo; Jacobs said. <\/p>\n<p>Jacobs warned Juneau residents to expect reduced visibility to accompany any future snowfall.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get those skis waxed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":40094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[212,48],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40093"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}